Support #475
Updated by Daniel Curtis about 10 years ago
Getmail is a useful tool for fetching mail from a remote mail server and delivering them to local mail account. This is useful for keeping emails concurrent between different mail servers if used as a cron job. Install Getmail * Update ports tree: <pre> portsnap fetch extract </pre> * Install Getmail: <pre> cd /usr/ports/mail/getmail make install clean </pre> * Prepare getmail environment: <pre> cd mkdir .getmail cp /usr/local/share/examples/getmail/getmailrc-examples .getmail/getmailrc </pre> * Edit the .getmail/getmailrc file to suit your remote servers information. h3. Retrieving emails from multiple accounts * Create a separate getmail rc file for each account, and run getmail with multiple --rcfile options. <pre> cd ~/.getmail mkdir getmail.d </pre> * Create first user <pre> vi ~/.getmail/getmail.d/john.getmailrc </pre> <pre> #* And and the following: </pre> <pre> ## john@example.com [options] verbose = 0 read_all = false delete = false [retriever] type = SimplePOP3Retriever server = mail.example.com username = john@altservice.com password = Password [destination] type = MDA_external path = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver arguments = ("-e", "-f", "%(sender)", "-d", "john@altservice.com") </pre> * Create next user <pre> vi ~/.getmail/getmail.d/bob.getmailrc </pre> #* And add the following: <pre> ## bob@example.com [options] verbose = 0 read_all = false delete = false [retriever] type = SimplePOP3Retriever server = mail.example.com username = bob@altservice.com password = Password [destination] type = MDA_external path = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver arguments = ("-e", "-f", "%(sender)", "-d", "bob@altservice.com") </pre> * Of course, it's really easy to script this for a large number of rc-* files. You might create a script in /usr/local/bin/run-getmail.sh containing: <pre> #!/bin/sh set -e cd /path/to/my-rc-directory rcfiles="" for file in rc-* ; do rcfiles="$rcfiles --rcfile $file" done exec /usr/local/bin/getmail $rcfiles $@ </pre>